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You are wrong. It would apply not just to owners, but to employees. So some Apple "genius" could refuse to serve a gay couple under the guise of free exercise of religion and Apple could not fire that "genius" as you can't make employment decisions based on Religion.

You...didn't actually read the article, did you? Or notice that its a repost from TodayIfoundout.com? Or check the author's byline to realize to wasn't a Gizmodo contributor. Or examine the author's CV? Or know any single fucking thing about the scientific method or rigor or how statistical samples work?

I'm a pediatrician, and I also have a PhD in molecular biology with a focus on vaccines, so generally I know what I'm talking about. I get so fucking tired of idiot parents equating their google searching and garbage science to my decade of medical and science training, I sometimes just want to ask them why they

Actually the motivation of my comment ultimately stems from the political. It is a critique not just of tattoos or hipsters but of what postmodernism in general has done to the political left and to meaningful cultural and political resistance. Getting a tattoo is a purely superficial act, as is the embrace of irony

Tattoos are for people who cannot muster a sense of individuality in any way other than the superficial. Whatever makes hipsters inauthentic makes the highly overlapping tattoo set inauthentic. That's the point. There is nothing rebellious about it any more. No matter what tattoo you get, you're painting yourself as a